Researcher
Jan Nyssen
- Disciplines:Quaternary environments, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Geomorphology and landscape evolution, Hydrogeology, Geoarchaeology
Affiliations
- Department of Geography (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → Today
Projects
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- Advancing Regional climate modeling to High resolution with Worldwide Applications - ARCHWAyFrom1 Oct 2022 → TodayFunding: FED-tWIN
- Consultancy to handle the data and professionalising of the database of civilian casualties in the Tigray War and to update the Tigray Atlas of the Humanitarian SituationFrom1 Sep 2021 → 31 Dec 2021Funding: Foreign Nonprofit organisations and equivalents
- Modelling topoclimate over the Ethiopian highlands: effects on rainfall distribution, vegetation and hydrologyFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Equipment sedimentological laboratoryFrom1 Jun 2018 → 31 May 2020Funding: BOF - Other initiatives
- Schools as hotspots safe water and improved sanitationFrom1 Dec 2017 → 31 Aug 2021Funding: Department of Environment
- Land use changes and water balance in the Mt. Guna shield volcano (Ethiopian plateau) since the 1930sFrom1 Oct 2017 → 31 Jul 2023Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Systemic analysis of dam-driven transitions of downstream alluvial plains in EthiopiaFrom1 Jan 2017 → 31 Dec 2020Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- IUS Bahir Dar University (BDU)Ethiopia - PPPFrom1 Mar 2016 → 31 Dec 2016Funding: VLIR-UOS Institutional University Cooperation Program (IUC)
- Sediment Budget of Lake Tana Basin (Ethiopia): It’s Implication on Lake Volume and Basin ManagementFrom1 Oct 2015 → 29 Feb 2020Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
- Tackling the source of runoff and water erosion: How resilient are our managed headwaters to climate change?From1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sep 2019Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
1 - 10 of 688
- War-induced land degradation mapped using ground and remote sensing data : the case of Dogu’a Tembien and Enderta districts in Tigray (Ethiopia)(2024)
Authors: Tesfaalem-Ghebreyohannes Asfaha, Jan Nyssen, Emnet Negash Gebremeskel, Hailemariam Meaza Gebregergs, Zbelo Tesfamariam Welemaram, Sofie Annys, Amaury Frankl
Number of pages: 1 - Mountain climate : one of the multipronged challenges in Ethiopia's agriculture(2023)
Authors: Emnet Negash Gebremeskel, Piet Termonia, Michiel Van Ginderachter, Kwinten Van Weverberg, Maarten Podevyn, Jan Nyssen
Number of pages: 1 - Multi-method monitoring of a failing rock face, Swiss Alps(2023)
Authors: Hanne Hendrickx, Gaëlle Le Roy, Agnès Helmstetter, Eric Pointner, Eric Larose, Luc Braillard, Jan Nyssen, Reynald Delaloye, Amaury Frankl
Pages: 69 - 70 - Convective rain over the Ethiopian highlands : orographic driving factors in a convection-permitting climate simulation(2023)
Authors: Emnet Negash Gebremeskel, Bert Van Schaeybroeck, Kwinten Van Weverberg, Piet Termonia, Michiel Van Ginderachter, Maarten Podevyn, Jan Nyssen
Number of pages: 1 - Tree-based ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality of church forests and their agricultural matrix near Lake Tana, Ethiopia(2023)
Authors: Ferehiwot Admassie, Tobias Fremout, Diederik Strubbe, Alemayehu Wassie, Shimelis Aynalem, Enyew Adgo, Jan Nyssen, Amaury Frankl, Luc Lens, Bart Muys
- Assessing catchment connectivity dynamics in the Gumara and Rib catchments of the Ethiopian Highland(2023)
Authors: Anik Juli Dwi Astuti, Sofie Annys, Hanibal Lemma, Jan Nyssen, Stefaan Dondeyne, Amaury Frankl
Pages: 15 - 15 - The status of small-scale farming during the Tigray War (Ethiopia) : evidence on the ground(2023)
Authors: Jan Nyssen, Emnet Negash Gebremeskel, Zbelo Tesfamariam Welemaram, Biadgilgn Demissie Mullaw, Alem Redda, Fetien Abay, Hailemariam Meaza Gebregergs, Amaury Frankl, Bert Van Schaeybroeck, Sofie Annys, et al.
Number of pages: 1 - Armed conflict in Tigray sets back decades of ecosystem restoration efforts(2023)
Authors: Meley Mekonen Rannestad, Emnet Negash Gebremeskel, Emiru Berhane, Sofie Annys, Mewcha Amha Gebremedhin, Aster Gebrekirstos, Jan Nyssen
Number of pages: 1 - Estimating the runoff response from hillslopes treated with soil and water conservation structures in the semi-arid Ethiopian highlands : is the curve number method applicable?(2023)
Authors: Gebeyehu Taye, Matthias Vanmaercke, Bas van Wesemael, Samuale Tesfaye, Daniel Teka, Jan Nyssen, Jozef Deckers, Jean Poesen
- Remote sensing reveals how armed conflict regressed woody vegetation cover and ecosystem restoration efforts in Tigray (Ethiopia)(2023)
Authors: Emnet Negash Gebremeskel, Emiru Birhane, Aster Gebrekirstos, Mewcha Amha Gebremedhin, Sofie Annys, Meley Mekonen Rannestad, Daniel Hagos Berhe, Amare Sisay, Tewodros Alemayehu, Tsegai Berhane, et al.
Linked dataset
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- Data set: historical and ethno-linguistic maps covering Western Tigray (1607-2014) (Creator)
- Western Tigray in 165 historical and 33 ethno-linguistic maps (1475-2014) (Creator)
- Market prices in Tigray (March 2020 – March 2022) (Creator)
- Spatially explicit dataset on crop status of 161 farm plots in Tigray (20-30 August 2021) (Creator)
- Spatially explicit dataset on crop status of 262 farm plots in Tigray (24-29 August 2022) (Creator)
- Database: the Ethiopian public universities during the Tigray war (Creator)